Hildebrand Route
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The Hildebrand route was one of the two divergences from the Northern route. They stayed close enough to the Northern route to have scouts report on their location several times in the Rev. Daniel S. Butrick’s Journal. They also would sometimes use the Northern route and left fires burning for the Richard Taylor detachment with whom they were travelling. Some believe they diverged from the Northern trail due to fires along that route. Others say that it was because all the detachments had taken all the wildlife for food. We believe in our area, they used what we called the Jackson to Fredericktown route. This route followed a trail that would be used by Jesse James and also by confederate soldiers a little over 20 years later. There were pioneer families along the Bollinger County portion of the trial but they were few and far between. Few communities had names yet but this was the route farmers and pioneers used to go to Fredericktown.
Coming from Cape County, County Rd. 352, you would cross the county line onto BCR 368 which ran right through US land surveys #2226, 675 and 809. Proceed due north onto State Hwy. B that took over the vacated portion of 368, then west onto BCR 366, BCR 366 passes through USPS #3143 & 774. These two land grants were to pioneer Christian Seabaugh. Christian had two sons who became doctors and his neighbor George Washington Mayfield, son of a Revolutionary War veteran, had five sons and seven grandsons who became doctors. Locals call this area “Doctor’s Row.”
Continue northwest on BCR. 364 which crosses pioneer Philip Bollinger’s land grant #227. Philip was a brother to Matthias who built Bollinger/Dolle Mill and to George Frederick for whom the county was named. A short way further on BCR 364 is the location of a long gone log house that was the favorite stop of Jesse James where he would request his favorite of fried chicken from the lady of the house.
Continue on BCR 375 to the Patton intersection of HWY 51. Cross State HWY 51 onto BCR 878. BCR 878 has been vacated from the time it reaches present HWY 72 to where it went in a northwesterly direction and crossed into Madison County just south of Cape Creek. Hwy 72 is the only continuous present road available after 878 now.
The Hildebrand route came through Jackson to Fredericktown. It followed the Northern route closely, which ran through Sedgewickville.
Part of the Bollinger County Trail of Tears Archive, this collection features documents, maps, photographs, and books relating to the research of the Hildebrand Route as it passed through the historical Bollinger County region.
Coming from Cape County, County Rd. 352, you would cross the county line onto BCR 368 which ran right through US land surveys #2226, 675 and 809. Proceed due north onto State Hwy. B that took over the vacated portion of 368, then west onto BCR 366, BCR 366 passes through USPS #3143 & 774. These two land grants were to pioneer Christian Seabaugh. Christian had two sons who became doctors and his neighbor George Washington Mayfield, son of a Revolutionary War veteran, had five sons and seven grandsons who became doctors. Locals call this area “Doctor’s Row.”
Continue northwest on BCR. 364 which crosses pioneer Philip Bollinger’s land grant #227. Philip was a brother to Matthias who built Bollinger/Dolle Mill and to George Frederick for whom the county was named. A short way further on BCR 364 is the location of a long gone log house that was the favorite stop of Jesse James where he would request his favorite of fried chicken from the lady of the house.
Continue on BCR 375 to the Patton intersection of HWY 51. Cross State HWY 51 onto BCR 878. BCR 878 has been vacated from the time it reaches present HWY 72 to where it went in a northwesterly direction and crossed into Madison County just south of Cape Creek. Hwy 72 is the only continuous present road available after 878 now.
The Hildebrand route came through Jackson to Fredericktown. It followed the Northern route closely, which ran through Sedgewickville.
Part of the Bollinger County Trail of Tears Archive, this collection features documents, maps, photographs, and books relating to the research of the Hildebrand Route as it passed through the historical Bollinger County region.
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